I am a GIS Technician with an Advanced Diploma in GIS from the Centre of Geographic Sciences in Nova Scotia and an Honors degree with a Specialist in English Literature, Major in GIS and a minor in Sociology from the University of Toronto. Follow me @missmurrium on twitter

Posts by Murrium Zaheer

Have you ever felt lost when someone started talking about precision agriculture? When people think about a GIS intensive environment, they probably imagine a bustling office where the inhabitants are using technology (i.e. their computers) to enhance their clients or customers lives. It is not surprising then, that most of us often do not often associate GIS with farming. Using technology to grasp the utilization of a vast amount of crop land actually makes sense because technology is constantly being used to enhance every aspect of our lives. In the most simplistic terms, it is the way that location technology (i.e. Geographic...